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Quote by John Updike
It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing

It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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